High-Performance Computational Methods for Coupled Field Problems

大挑战应用小组竞赛为支持工程师和科学家组成的多学科团队提供了一种机制，以实现1992财政年度高性能计算和通信（HPCC）计划的目标。理想的提案不仅提供卓越的基础研究；在科学和工程的关键领域具有潜在重大影响的集中问题，以及涉及数学，计算机或计算科学家的各种学科和计算活动之间的重要相互作用；这将对正在研究的特定问题领域或学科之外的高性能计算活动产生影响。这是该项目的目标，该项目是应用数学、天体物理学、计算机和计算科学、工程学、地球物理科学之间的合作，旨在开发与耦合场和相干结构以及地球物理和天体物理流体动力学（GAFD）湍流相关问题的并行算法。各种应用领域的共同点是性能度量、海量数据集和多tb数据集的可视化。除了科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的专家外，美国国家大气研究中心（NCAR）的科学家将为地转湍流和海洋对流研究做出贡献，明尼苏达大学的科学家将获得一份分包合同，他们将在天体物理学和可视化方面提供专业知识。

The Grand Challenge Application Groups competition provides one mechanism for the support of multidisciplinary teams of engineers and scientists to meet the goals of the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Initiative in Fiscal Year 1992. The ideal proposal provides not only excellence in basic research: focussed problem with potential for substantial impact in critical area(s) of science and engineering, but also significant interactions between the various disciplinary and computational activities involving mathematical, computer or computational scientists, that would have an impact in high performance computational activity beyond the specific problem area(s) or discipline being studied. These are the goals of this project which is a collaboration between applied mathematics, astrophysics, computer and computational science, engineering, geophysical sciences, to develop parallel algorithms for problems relating to Coupled Fields and Coherent Structures and Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics (GAFD) Turbulence. The common denominator of the various application areas are performance measures, massive data sets, and the visualization of multi- terabyte data sets. In addition to the expertise at the University of Colorado at Boulder, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) will contribute to geostrophic turbulence and ocean convection research, and a sub-contract will be given to the scientists at the University of Minnesota who will contribute expertise in both astrophysics and visualization.